Finding how many people there are, in particular groups of people, has a looong history. In Exodus, its written that God Himself told Moses in the Sinai desert to take a census. And we discovered His reason why from the words of the Big Guy Himself – from behind burning bushes. According to Exodus, “When you take the census of the people of Israel, then each shall give a ransom (half a shekel) for his life to the LORD…that there be no plague among them.” God gotta be paid for not launching plagues and such-like as a kind of tithe?
Thousands of years later, around the time that Jesus was born, we hear: “In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world.” By then, there were all sorts of reasons for these censuses that go back to David, who conducted his census to determine how large an army he could raise!! The Romans held census to determine how much taxes they could impose to run their Empire.
Well, the British – who fancied themselves succeeding the Romans – followed suit and held censuses in all their colonies, including us in dear Mudland. These were held every ten years, after they combined the three colonies into British Guiana in 1831: our population was 93,000. A century later, in 1931 – with over 250,000 immigrants entering and remaining – we’d only grown to 310,000. There were more deaths than births!! By 1960, when our reasons for looking at censuses started to become political, since they signalled how the votes might be split, we didn’t just look at the total numbers – 560,000 – but the ethnic breakdown!!
By 1970 we’d jumped to 710,000 but flattened by 1980 to 760,000; then, in 1991, dropped to 723,000 because of massive migration!! Burnham’s riggings made ethnic breakdowns irrelevant, but now the Indians’ numbers – even reduced since 1980s 50% – were still enough to get the PPP over the hump!! The PNC’s 42% of the vote in 1992 mirrored the African/Mixed percentage!! In the new millennium – surprising many after free and fair elections – the 2002 census showed only 751,000 with migration unabated and Indians inexorably slipping to 43%! 2012’s 746,000 showed the trend worsening, with Indians now 39% and no group having a majority. With the game now to attract from outside the tribe, the PPP was checkmated in 2011, then lost in 2015.
Last week, the IMF announced our population actually GREW – to 814,000!! But while Indians would’ve shrunken further, the PPP has used the oil revenues to launch such a development programme that ALL ETHNIC SHIPS HAVE BEEN LIFTED!!
Ethnic breakdowns are now irrelevant!! Hallelujah!!
…will be the strike?
Your Eyewitness heard through social media “grapevine” that there’s been a two-week nationwide strike called to force the Government to have Adrianna’s death investigated by “independent international authorities, like the FBI, Scotland Yard, and RCMP.” The ex-RMCP individual sourced by the Govt clearly ain’t up to snuff.
Other demands were, “No school. No work. No shopping except for absolute essentials. No business as usual until we get justice. Gather in front of the U.S. Embassy every day, united, with signs demanding FBI intervention.” In case you wouldn’t think about it, they advise “Stock up on food and essentials”!!
However, in your Eyewitness’s estimation, he can predict very confidently they ain’t gonna be getting no support, since they also specified – “No violence, no looting, no destruction.” Are they for real?? Don’t they realise those were precisely the attractions that brought out the “protestors” in GT??
The intention was to get into the stores to loot – and violence was merely incidental to anyone who got in their way!!
…palace in the air
Qatar just presented Trump with a $400M super-luxury outfitted Boeing 747-8 jumbo jet, that’s been called a “flying palace”!! Don’t think this is to influence the US President – that’s illegal. It’s just a gift between friends!!
